A company once hired a recent immigrant and put him to work in the mail room. To the foreman’s shock, the guy was a whiz. He stood in front of the sorting racks and shuffled the letters into slots with amazing speed. The foreman had never seen anything like it.

At the end of the day, the foreman shook the new man’s hand, thanked him and said, “I’ve never seen anyone who could sort mail as fast as you.”

The new immigrant smiled and said, “You think I’m good now you wait until I can read English.” (1)

Well, maybe he wasn’t as fast as he looked. I wonder where some of the mail ended up?

Some things are just too good to be true. Every consumer knows that’s true. As one observer notes, “We’re inundated by offers on a daily basis that seem too good to be true, and for the most part they are.…